Alison Morton, Author at Women Writers, Women's Books http://booksbywomen.org/author/alisonmorton/ Tue, 20 Nov 2018 10:41:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 39938774 From Long To Short: A Short Story Phobic’s Tale https://booksbywomen.org/from-long-to-short-a-short-story-phobics-tale-by-alison-morton/ https://booksbywomen.org/from-long-to-short-a-short-story-phobics-tale-by-alison-morton/#respond Thu, 13 Dec 2018 22:39:40 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=24851 Being honest, I found short stories difficult. Distilling a tale down to 1,000 or 2,000 words without making a good, meaty story seemed a terrifying task; no character development, no sub-plots, little if any world-building, no wide cast of characters, no complexity, I thought. As a newbie writer several years ago, I tried very hard […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/from-long-to-short-a-short-story-phobics-tale-by-alison-morton/feed/ 0 24851 Taming The Novella https://booksbywomen.org/taming-the-novella/ https://booksbywomen.org/taming-the-novella/#respond Sat, 23 Dec 2017 08:58:54 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=21056 I write long-form fiction, around 100,000 words, and I’ve published six of these full-length novels in the form of two trilogies. In my hand, the books are chunky and pleasingly real. I’m in my stride, in the zone where I can be as complex as I like. Each of my characters goes on a journey […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/taming-the-novella/feed/ 0 21056 A Tale of Two Trilogies https://booksbywomen.org/a-tale-of-two-trilogies-by-alison-morton/ https://booksbywomen.org/a-tale-of-two-trilogies-by-alison-morton/#comments Mon, 01 May 2017 07:28:15 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=19037 One evening in 2009 a writing trigger was pulled in my mind; I sat in front of my computer and poured out a story of high adventure set in the present in an alternative new Rome, but with a twist. It included a hunky hero, but the story was driven by a young woman who transformed from a prickly […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/a-tale-of-two-trilogies-by-alison-morton/feed/ 1 19037 Is There Any Hope For Qualifiers? https://booksbywomen.org/is-there-any-hope-for-qualifiers-by-alison-morton/ https://booksbywomen.org/is-there-any-hope-for-qualifiers-by-alison-morton/#comments Tue, 12 Apr 2016 05:00:30 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=15459 Very, quite, really, pretty, a bit, just, fairly, rather, amazingly, almost, nearly, obviously, clearly… such naughty words! Or are they? Placed directly in front of adjectives or adverbs they are a shorthand method of qualifying the meaning of that adverb or adjective. Sometimes they flounce around by themselves only accompanied now and again by a […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/a-lesson-learned/feed/ 2 15127 Planning the End or Ending the Plan? https://booksbywomen.org/planning-the-end-or-ending-the-plan-by-alison-morton/ https://booksbywomen.org/planning-the-end-or-ending-the-plan-by-alison-morton/#comments Tue, 05 May 2015 08:49:12 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=13336 Incredible what a tweet can do. On 18 April Barbara Bos of this esteemed site posted a quotation from Rose Tremain, “In the planning stage of a book, don’t plan the ending. It has to be earned by all that will go before it.” I raised the query whether this was clever, or just poor […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/planning-the-end-or-ending-the-plan-by-alison-morton/feed/ 5 13336 Can a Self-Published Author Have an Agent? https://booksbywomen.org/can-a-self-published-author-have-an-agent-by-alison-morton/ https://booksbywomen.org/can-a-self-published-author-have-an-agent-by-alison-morton/#comments Wed, 04 Mar 2015 13:28:41 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=13067 Can a self-published/independent author have an agent? Surely, it’s a contradictory state? Well, no, not in today’s publishing world. Last May, I signed with A for Authors literary agency to represent me for subsidiary and foreign rights. As the congratulations flowed in, I was a little overwhelmed by the lovely things people said on Facebook […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/trilogy-writing-tips-by-alison-morton/feed/ 10 11700 Alternative History…What if women were in charge? https://booksbywomen.org/alternative-history-what-if-women-were-in-charge-by-alison-morton/ https://booksbywomen.org/alternative-history-what-if-women-were-in-charge-by-alison-morton/#comments Thu, 05 Sep 2013 04:00:10 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=9238 A small child, curls bobbing on a head she’s forgotten to cover with the sunhat her mother insists on, crouches down on a Roman mosaic floor in north-east Spain. Mesmerised by the purity of the black and white pattern, the craftsmanship and the tiny marble squares, she almost doesn’t hear her father calling her to […]

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